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Last night, UKTV show “Tonight” broadcast a 30 minute documentary called “Facing up to Facebook”.

As well as looking into some of the great things that Facebook can do (for instance, they told the story of how the family of a British man who had been critically injured while holidaying in Mexico had managed to find blood donors via the site), it also examined some of the problems with the site.

The search engine giant – who today changed its logo to celebrate the 40th birthday of “Sesame Street” – is attempting to respond to the concerns of some internet users that Google is gathering too much data about individuals through its various cloud services.

A security researcher has uncovered a serious security vulnerability in Facebook that gives hackers a silent method to steal users’ personal information, such as their full names, profile pictures, and friends lists.

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